Gluten free chicken strips

Actually gluten free, soy free and dairy free and who knows what else. These strips are what I make when I'm in the mood for fast food. I fried up some potatoes that I cut into fries and then made the breading for the strips while I defrosted them in the microwave. The breading consisted of...

1 cup of Better Batter Flour

Tony's Cacheres Seasoning to taste

Pepper to taste

That's it! Easy as pie and delicious. I liked this better than using Zantaraine's seasoning if only because it coated the chicken better and fried up better. Some one mentioned they made theirs this way on the sillyak list on Yahoo and I thought it was worth a try.



Looks tasty right?

2 days and counting until my appointment with the RA doctor. I hope I get help and am not disappointed. I've heard a lot of talk on a Yahoo group for arthritis about those who have had to go from doctor to doctor to find one that can help them. I really hope that is not going to happen to me. I guess I am just nervous. I hope this isn't going to be a long haul like the Celiac diagnosis was. We'll see.

Bye!

Coconut milk yogurt success!

Yesterday I experimented with making a gluten free, soy free, dairy free yogurt using coconut milk. I read a few recipes on line and decided to wing it. So I got out my yogurt maker....





I love this yogurt maker. When I bought it I opted for this one because of all the individual jars. I really liked that feature and enjoy using it.

Here are the ingrediants I used.



The only difference is I decided not to use the xanthan gum because I noticed the coconut milk had guar gum in it already so wanted to see what would happen. I did add a little bit of sugar also which I will leave out next time. The only thing I wasn't sure about was the probiotic I chose to purchase. It wasn't a yogurt starter but it was a freeze dried powdered multidophilus, the same stuff in yogurt so I figured it would work just fine. And work fine it did. I let it incubate for about 8 hours and it thickened nicely. It tasted delicious! I let it cool in the fridge for several hours and added some nice fresh blueberries and it was great. I was suprised at how much it tasted like coconut. I do like my yogurt a touch thicker so next time I will add some xanthan gum to see what that does for it.



Looks good right. The only thing I wonder about is if my probiotic was still living in it and if I was still getting the benefit it provides. I don't know a whole lot about yogurt making yet so I guess I need to look into it but the fact that it thickened nicely I think may have ment it was.

In the oven right now is a peach cobbler that I also decided to wing. We'll see how that turns out.

Bye!

Gluten free cooking

Lately I've been cooking as much as I can. These days standing for long periods of time bothers me too much so I've been working on some of my recipes that take awhile to cook. First up is the delicious pinto beans I made. I can not believe how good these turned out with just a few simple ingrediants.



Pintos and Rice

Soak a pound of pinto beans over night. Make sure you rinse them and pick out any stones.

The next day drain and rinse soaked beans and place in large pot and cover with water by a few inches and cook for and hour and a half.

After the hour and a half add the salt pork, salt, pepper, garlic powder and whatever spice you are in the mood for and you will probably need to add several more cups of water at this point. I also shook in some worchestire sauce and Franks Red Hot sauce. Probably a few tablespoons or more of each. Cook for several hours more. I never keep track of time I just cook until the water has cooked down to a nice thick broth and beans. I then took out the salt pork and shredded off any pork meat and added it back to the beans and made some nice Jasmine rice in my rice cooker. I spooned out beans on a plate and topped with some rice and cut up a raw onion to eat with it. Wala! Delicious beans and rice. Next time I will try it with red beans but for some reason those are hard to find around here. I've also since making this realized that I am not tolerating raw onions at all right now so no raw onion for me next time. You could also fry some potatoes to eat along side instead of the rice. I have done this in the past but wanted it a little more healthy this time although brown rice would have been even better.

Also, today I am making coconut yogurt and I made a whole chicken and some soup with goodies from my garden. See my haul from the garden.



I will post how those turned out another day. The yogurt has an hour to go yet and the soup I haven't tried yet so can't report on the taste. I flew by the seat of my pants on that one. Hopefully tomorrow will be a baking day and I will get a peach crisp made with peaches from a local farmers stand and a zucchini cake made with zucchini from my garden and my beloved Better Batter Flour.

I did want to report in on the turkey nuggets I made for our night at the drive in. First I will say that Step Brothers movie was one of the worst I've seen in a long time and Hancock was hyped up to be better than it actually was.

The nuggets were good but it did not curb my craving for fast food chicken strips. Since being gluten free and not being able to eat out very often due to limited food choices and not trusting that it will be made properly whenever I am in the mood for fast food I fry up some chicken strips and roast some potatoes in the oven. Yum! I will be making that this week because chicken strips are on sale this week. Here's a pic of the nuggets.



Off to the store!


Bye!